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Harry Truman meant his fireside chat to be a success. A man well aware of his limitations, he nevertheless hoped to transcend them. He had reached a turning point in his presidential career; he wanted to round the corner with banners flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cult of Mediocrity? | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...believe that all colonial powers in any given region and other countries who have a particular interest in the region should meet together in order to discuss their common problems, and to help each other to find their common solutions. So many problems today -economic, health and transportation-transcend the frontiers of individual units, and can only successfully be dealt with on a regional basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Half-Moon Street (Paramount) polishes up quite a nice thriller out of a question which has troubled the world (if only in its leisure moments) ever since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. The smoldering question: does scientific curiosity transcend morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

Cosmopolitan Railway. Arguing that sea power would decline as railroads grew, Gilpin proposed to join the peoples of the Isothermic Zodiac, minimize wars and "transcend the disharmony of world geoggraphy" by means of a globe-girdling "Cosmopolitan Railway." It would run through the three continents, cross the Bering Strait by car ferry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gilpin, Geopolitician | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...wonderful Socrates. And in departing from the "economic interpretation of the Constitution," he does much to vindicate the moral disinterestedness of the Founding Fathers. When he is all through he has pretty well succeeded in making his readers believe that human beings have potentialities for fair dealing that transcend any question of their economic or social status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latter-Day Beard | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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